The [scanners] command

Description of the 'Scanners' window

The scanners management program is an internal Supercomputer program that allows to control and verify the status of the 3 boxes used to virtualize/rematerialize a person on/from the virtual world.

Free scanner

A so-called 'Free' scanner is an activated scanner that does not have anyone scanned in memory. The rectangle representing the box is colored in blue.

Loaded scanner

A so-called 'Loaded' scanner is an activated scanner that has a person in memory scanned via the [scan] command or dematerialized via the [devirt] command. The rectangle representing the box is filled with green bars.

Disabled scanner

A disabled scanner is an unusable scanner for a virtualization or a devirtualization. The box displayed in red in the 'Scanners' window.

Sub-commands related to the [scanners] command

Initialization

Opens the 'Scanners' window.

scanners

Scanners.002 — The status of the scanners is updated in real time in the window

Selecting a scanner

Select a scanner (1, 2 or 3) with the management program.

All 3 scanners can be selected at the same time with the scanners.all command.

scanners.<ScannerNum>

Scanners.003 — The selected scanner will blink slightly when selected

Activating a scanner

Activates the selected scanner(s).

Keeping a scanner active will cost you 1,000 units of energy.

scanners.on

Scanners.004 — You can hear activated scanners open from the lab

Deactivating a scanner

Deactivates the selected scanner(s).

If a lyoko warrior is devirtualized and no scanner is free to rematerialize him, he will be sent in the frontier.
If a loaded scanner is deactivated, the character inside will be stuck in the box.

scanners.off